Assets of Suphire Securities and Suphire Trading and Investment were frozen by Nicosia District Court on Thursday March 17, along with the assets of Yiannis Andronikou and Rea Andronikou, who have a controlling stake in the company, following investigations into huge losses in the pension funds managed by the companies. The Cyprus Stock Exchange (CSE)

?ospitals in Cyprus treated more patients in 2003 than in the year before, more surgical operations were performed, out-patients attendances increased and so did casualty patients. According to statistics, published here today, 56,850 patients were admitted for treatment and discharged from the general hospitals in 2003 compared with 55,142 the year before, recording a 3.1%